February 26 - July 31, 2016 - The installation of 63 vintage prints from this survey of 120 photographs, are all works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection. Forty years later, No Mountains in the Way remains an important document of American photography. It is the record of a particular American place. It is also the record of a time when NEA support shap...

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Judged competition car show. Muscle cars, Street Rods, Classics, Pro Street, Classics, Trucks, Motorcycles, Imports, Tuners. Three day indoor show at the DC National Guard Armory. Vendors of all descriptions, live entertainment, food, games, raffles, fun for all ages! Vehicles from all across the country competing for the best of the best. Remember the thunder of the old school classics? Well, the...

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March 5, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - This exhibition transforms the International Gallery into a visit to Old Kabul. Artisans from Murad Khani demonstrate their work and share their experiences, allowing visitors to appreciate Afghanistan’s rich culture and national pride.  Decades of civil unrest nearly destroyed Afghanistan’s vital artistic heritage. Over the past decade, Tur...

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March 12, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition features 43 pieces including sculptures, mixed-media pieces, photographs, paintings and drawings. The jurors considered this exhibition a synopsis of historical and cultural events that have unfolded in the past three rounds, particularly in terms of race, sexual identity, gender and concerns about protecting childhood in an age of technology and ...

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March 19 – September 18, 2016 -  Mater has focused primarily on photography and video since 2010. From abandoned desert cities to the extraordinary transformation of Mecca, Symbolic Cities presents his visual and aural journeys observing economic and urban change in Saudi Arabia. The exhibition, the first in the United States solely dedicated to Mater, also debuts new works based on his...

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April 1 - July 1, 2016 - This Archives Center case features photographs of jazz musicians. Francis Wolff was the co-founder of Blue Note Records as well as the photographer who created most of the company’s record album cover images. Large photographic prints on display depict such luminaries as Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis in the 1950s-1960s.

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April 1, 2016 - April 2, 2017 - The exhibition examines the critical role that each woman played in the day to day activities of The Phillips Collection over six decades.

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April 1, 2016 – September 11, 2016 - Hollywood personalities who once graced theater marquees across America are featured in original cover art commissioned by Time magazine. Included are vintage portraits of stars like Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep, as well as Oscar-winning directors Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen. The show foc...

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April 7, 2016 – September 5, 2016 - The first museum exhibition to focus exclusively on Irwin’s extraordinary trajectory between 1958 and 1970 charts the artist’s remarkable course from the early small abstractions and larger “pick-up stick” paintings, through the line paintings and dot paintings, into the aluminum and acrylic discs, the acrylic columns, and, finally,...

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April 16, 2016 – July 24, 2016 - Poetry, painting, and calligraphy: Known as the “Three Perfections,” these genres were regarded as the ultimate expressions of Chinese literati culture during the Ming dynasty (1369–1644). Members of the Wu School, centered on the affluent city of Suzhou and nearby towns, earned admiration for their interpretations of these art forms. Painti...

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